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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1908)
33rd(EAR. NO. 160 ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1003 PRICE FIVE CENTS AMERICANS START ILL In the Olympic Races at London TWO MEN GET PLACE American Athletes 'Point Out in justice In the Methods, However ' KING EDWARD IS THERE Revival of the- Olympic Championship Garnet Opened Yeiterday and the American Men Show up All Right -It World-Wide Event LONDON, July 13. The American team of athletei it well tatUfied with the results obtained by them on the first day of the revival of the Olympic championship garnet which opened at the Stadium here today, haVing got two men, J. II. Sullivan and Melvin W. Sheppard, both of the Irish American Athletic Club, into the final heat of the 1500-meter race. They "were unfortunate,' however. In the first heat, when two of their best men at the distance had to run against each other and these same conditions prevailed in the second heat, when J. P. Halstcad, New York Athletic Club, was beat by his team partner, Melvin W Sheppard, by half a yard. The Americans point out the injustice caused by the , English drawing for heats as shown by the fact that Hal stead, although he ran much . faster than the winners of the other heats, is eliminated from the final, as he finished second. Heavy rain made the 2000 athletes assembled, thinks that the opening of the Stadium at Shepherds Bush would have to be postponed. Ai the day advanced the downpour gave way to a drizzle, which however, soon passed over, and as the time ap proached for the opening the sun came out occasionally, and with the assistance of a light breeze brightened up the decorations. Crowds gathered Inside and outside of the Stadium, .and long before the arrival of the King and Queen the cheaper sections of the Stadium were filled with the spectators prepared to stay out the afternoon, no matter what the condi tions were. . Shortly after 3 o'clock in the after noon the royal box, which had been fitted up for the accommodation of 40 persons, began to fill up, the early arrivals including the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden and their children, the Crown Prince and Prin cess of Greece, the Dake and Duchess of Connaught and the Puke and Duchess of Argylc. A short time af terwards the playing of the national anthem by a band of the Grenadier Guards announced the arrival of King Edward, Queen Alexandra and Prin cess Victoria with their suites, who had been driven in state from Buck ingham Palace. ' Lord Dcsborough, chairman of the council of the British Olympic Association, welcomed their Majesties at the entrance to the Sta dium and presented the members of the Olympic Council. As the King entered the royal box a bugler gave a signal the gates leading to the competitors' quarters flew open and the athletes marched ottt under the banners of their re spective nations, The procession was formed in alphabetical order, Austria leading, with the exception that the English-speaking races came last. This latter section was ' led by an American team. MANY PARROTS DIE Long Trip From South America To Lot Angeles Without Food LOS ANGEUsTjuly 13.Hur.d reds of dead and dying parrots and parrokeets wire discovered at the Arcade depot yesterday by officials of the S. P. C. A., whoie' attention wa called to the condition of the large shipment to the California Parrot Company at Fresno. According to tlic statements of officer! who investi gated the cae the cage contained nearly 1,000 bird i and it was claimed they had been without food and water niitcc thetr departure from Guaymas. For lome realon, not explained the cage had been marked with the ad monition not to feed, or water the bird, but the warning wa disregard ed by the S. P. C. A. official who saved the lives of many of them. Notice will be lervcd on the expreii company ordering that ihipmenti 'under similar condition will be here after refused. RESCUING MINERS. Men Arc Busy on Scene of the Wyoming Disaster. HANNA, Wyo., July 13,-The Eastern slope of the Pacific Mine No. l,in two disasters which occurred on March 30 hai been opened for a dis tance of 100 feet and the work of cleaning out the debris it progressing, After seveal dayi, the workmen will proceed further into the mine. The bodv of Electrician Armstrong, who after the first explosion went into the mine to repair lights for the rescuers and who was burned by the second explosion was recovered today. There are still ,57, bodies in the mine. TO GET RICH QUICK Another Land Scheme Arrest Is -"'' 'Made :: TO LOOT PUBLIC DOMAIN Henry E. 0. Cooke ia Arrested at Baker City on Charge of Fraudu lent Dealings in Oregon Lands Hla Plana Were Daring. PORTLAND, July 13. With the arrest in Baker City, Ore., of Henry E. G. Cooke, head of the Oregon Ranching and Timber Company and the. Southwest Texas Development 'Company, occupying offices in the Tribune building, New York city, on an indictment returned bv the Federal ' grand jury of Gotham, charging him 'and A. G. Marshall with conspiracy, what appears to be a colossal scheme , to loot the public . domain has come to liizht. ! ' Cooke was taken into custody by the Baker City authorities upon tele graphic advices, from District Attor ney John McCourc, who was advised by wire from New York to cause the arrest of the alleged land manipula tor on a true bill found against him. !A deputy United States marshal will ( leave here at once for Eastern, Ore gon to bring the prisoner to Portland 'in the event he is unable to furnish bail ! In all the palmy days of the opera tions of the Oregon land frauders" nothing equalling in point of daring or originality the alleged methods of Cooke was ever devised, and the effrontery which is said to character ize the mode of action of the Oregon Rant:h'ng 'and Timber Company indi cated that the concern, banking on legal advise, s entirely fearless of the consequences. : "Twenty to one for your money" is tlic bait which is said to have been .filtered 1o those desirous "of joining the alleged "get-rich-quick" move ment, and from the glowing prospec tus compiled by the concern the in vestment of $100 will produce $2000 in three months. ' AVENQESHER in orm p Another Tragcdr ollows Shooting a Year Ago SCENE OF OLD CRIME Dr. Simpson Is Shot by the Woman He Made a Widow, After Being Warned OUTCOME DOMESTIC TROUBLE His Wife Who Took Witness Stand Against Him at Former Trial Refuses to See HimIs in a Serious Condition. NORTHPORT, N. Y., July 13 Standing within a few feet of where little more than two years ago he shot and killed his father-in-law, Dr. Jas, Waddcll Simpon, a dentist of New York was shot and perhaps mortally wounded today by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Sartley Horner, whom he made a widow. Dr. Simpson's wife from whom he had been estranged for many months was near when the shot 'was fired, but she was not a witness to the shooting. Upon learning that it was her husband who had been wounded she refused to go near him and Dr. Simpson had to crawl to the house 200 feet away to have his wounds at tended to, Mrs. Horner was later arrested and held in $S000 bail, while Dr. Simpson, with the assistance of two friends made his wav to the Roosevelt hos pital in New York. The bullet lodged in the liver and an immediate opera tion was performed to take the bul let out. The doctors said tonight that Simpson has only a small chance of recovery. Statements from Simpson and Mrs. Horner as to the circum stances attending the shooting dis agree. The dentist says he had re ceived word from his wife that she intended to sue him for divorce and that he went to the Horner home to talk with her about it. He says he rang the door bell and upon receiving no response peered through the door pane. He saw Mrs. Horner he says, and called upon her to open the door. Then Dr. Simpson says, she grabbed up a revolver and shot him. The bullet entered his body above the abdomen and he fell back against the doorsill. A second shot was 'fired at him, he declares, but the bullet went wild. Mrs. Horner does hot deny that she did the1 shooting but claims justification. Through her lawyer, Rowland Miles, she' said, Simpson imd several times called, at the house and he, and his visits were ..unwel- come, wnen he came y. she ordered him today, she away,' ' and when he refused to go. she: took up a revolver and shot at him. , , , . ; Constable Hanson, who arrested Simpson in 190S when 1 the dentist ihot ;Mrs. Ilorner's husband; arrested MrSi.Honier this evening. This sec ond tragedy is only another , chapyir of the unhappy domestic events of the last few . years., , The , shooting of Homer; by Simpson, aroused the countryside, arid when the . dentist was put on trial for life, his wife took the stand against him as did his mother-in-law. Pr. Simpson was going through manual-of-arms with a shotgun when he was shot by Mrs. Horner. WATCHES' WOMAN DROWN j Dastardly Chicago Crowd Stands Idly By And See Her Sink To Death. O JlIICAGO, July 13-With 200 men ind boys standing within a few feet of her and in sight of 1U00 other an unidentified women, felt or rolled purposely from the North Pier at the mouth of the Chicago river yesterday and was drowned. Although she screamed repeatedly for assistance not a hand in the crowd that watched her struggles in the water was lifted to save her. Instead one of the gasjwrs stole, the woman's purse and hat which she had placed on the pier be side her and fled. A half hour later the bodv wai taken from the water by Capt. Carlad and his men from the life saving station. The body was neatly dres sed. The woman apparently was 35 years old, five feet four inches tall with dark brown hair and hazel eyes and weighed 105 pounds. TO JURY WEDNESDAY. Steve Adams Produces Eight Strong . Witnesses. - GRAND JUNCTION,' Colo., July 13.The defense rested today in the case of Steve Adams, charged with the murder of Arthur Collins, a mine superintendent after producing eight witnesses who testified that Adams was playing cards at Mrs. Mennan'i boarding house at Ophir on the night Collins was shot in Telluride, and was still there when 'f a .man brought the news of the murder. The prosecution announced that it would close rebuttal evidence by noon to morrow and the case will probably go to the jury Wednesday. . FIRE AT SEATTLt More Than a Score of Firemen Overcome by Smoke DAMAGE ALMOST $150,000 Flames Start in .Basement of the Hinkley Building Over Half the Damaae Carried no Insurance Jeweler Heaviest Loser. SEATTLE, fuiv 13.-A fire that started m the basement of the Hink ley building at Second and Columbia streets tins evening, burned for three hours, and inflicted damage between $100,000 and $150,000 lass than half which is covered by insurance... More than a score of firemen, were over come by , smoke and paint fumes an for a time it was heard that, some of them lost their lives. All can be ac counted for however and none are expected to die. All but about $50, 000 damage to the building is repre sented in merchant stocks, destroyed and damaged. H. Silver, a jeweler, whose half stock is damaged, to the amount of $125,000, is the , heaviest loser.,. He carried no insurance. , , SOCIALISTS ARRESTED LOS ANGELES, July 13.-The attitude of Socialists of this city, who are, lately insisting upon the right to j address . street meetings in spite of numerous arrests by the police, prom ises to end in a somewhat bitter camp aign. Several sand . lot; orators nave served chain-gang , sentences and at present four women and a man are confined in the, County Jail awaiting trials set for October. , , ' Walter; V. Holloway, .,.a national committeeman of the Socialist party, whose wife is one of the pristoners, stated today that his associates, were planning , for a,, large demonstration, when the police will be compelled to make arrests, Holloway stated that sympathizers, from other cities were arriving here and that finnaciat aid was being sent from many parts of the country. THOUSANDS KEPT IDLE aper Makers Trouble Ef fecting Publishers APPEAL TO PRESIDENT Rider, of American Newspaper Association, Says. Courts Promise Fails TO END LAWLESS CONDITION The Situation Requires Drastic Treat ment and an Urgent Appeal is Made to Bring About a Satisfactory Settlement NEW YORK, July 13.-Not only are the paper makers keeping their own employes in idleness, but they are enforcing idleness upon thousands of workers in the printing and pub hshing plants throughout the coun try." This is the conclusion of Her man Ridder. the president of the American Newspaper Publishers' As sociation, expressed in a letter to the president about the paper combma tions. The letter states that the promise that the courts would pro- ide adequate and prompt remedy aft er an appeal to congress had been made failed, and has not been fulfilled; and that after 24 paper makers, acting to gether in the Fibre and Manila As sociation had been Subjected to grand jury investigation, the paper makers admitted that they placed their records beyond their reach but subsequently all but two of the par ticipants pleaded guilty, and , that immunity was practically , granted every individual who participated in the pool. The treasurer and the originator of the pool, John H, Parks is now, says the letter, a fugitive in Europe. "Such a finish to ;the proceedure," the letter further states, "Is a miscar riage of justice," i rr,;j, "The situation," the letter states", "requires drastic treatment and afl appeal is made that steps be taken to bring the law-breakers to their senses and end these lawless conditions, which interferes with the return tc prosperity." , POSITION OF FLEET HONOLULU, July 13.-A wireless message from Lieutenant Fullinwaid er, Associated Press correspondent on board the battleship Connecticut, re ceived late last night says the position of the Atlantic fleet at 8 p. m. was in Latitude 28.19; Longitude 146.15. The fleet will slow down to nine knots an hour tomorrow noon in order to pass the leper settlement on Molokai in daylight Thursday morning. The Nebraska is 140 miles behind the fleet arc: will overtake the other vessels Tuesday smooth.", morning. The sea is 1 MARINE IS DROWNED SAN FRANCISCO,' July 13 -A re port has been made to the harbor police by Lieutenant Owen, comman der of the Marine barracks at Goat Island, that a. marine whose identity has, not been established was thrown off' the end of the Clay Street wharf during; a fight" -with , a sailor of ,the West Virginia on Saturday night last and drowned." The information upon which Lieutenant Owen bases his re port says the sailor and the unknown marine ' wiere both precipitated, into the watei of the bay and that sailor wal rescued. ATTACKED BY ROUGHS. Returning Pennsylvania Democrat Delegation Meets With Sticks. CHICAGO, July 13.-A special despatch to the Tribune from St. Louis, Mo., says: The train bearing the Pennsylvania delegation, from Denver was attacked by roughs, as it was entering St On the side of the special car was the streamer of the Pennsylvania dele gation, ':- v The train was running at a high rate of speed when suddenly there was a fusilade of stones, bricks and bullets. Wm: Schultze, O; W. Max well and J. H. Curran of Washington, Pa., seated together at one side of the car, were cut by the flying glass, but escaped the stones and bullets. Colonel James M. Cuffey was seat ed in the forward end of the car and escaped injury. Since leaving Denver, Colonel Guf- fey has been ill as the result of the heat, and the excitement of the con vention.' A physician was caned to the train and attended Mr. Cuffey. REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS. Hitchcock Locates and Says Taft Will Not Make Speeches Until Sept NEW, YORK, July 13. Chairman Hitchcock of the Republican National Committee today selected quarters in the Metropolitan Life Insurance building here. : The active presidential campaign will begin August 1st when the committee . opens headquarters. Hitchcock says he, has intention to remain in New York and direct the fight. He states Taft will not make any speeches until after September 1. OilEGOILQiBURSI 12 Feet of Water Sweeps Down Dry Canyon HEPPNER PARTLY FLOODED Eastern Oregon Town Has Stores Submerged No Lives Lost and Damage is Only Slight Power House Out of Commission PENDLETON, Or.. July 13.-A cloudburst in the vicinity of Heppner today flooded Dry Canon and sent water1 pouring down it 12 feet. deep. The wafer swept down the steep in stead of following the river channel through Heppner, flooding the lower stories of houses in the upper end of town to a depth of, two feet.. The power house was put out of business and the damage can not be repaired for 24 hours. No lives are lost and no serious, damage has been done. POTTER IMPROVING. COOPERSTOWN,.July 13-Bish- j op Potter's condition showed a mark ed improvement today and he was able to sit up for a time. TO SUPPORT BRYAN. j LINCOLN, July 13. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, and practicaly 3,000,000 vot ers of organized labor, will support Bryan in the camapign. While' Gompers promised his support today, he specifically denied any present in tention of taking to the stump. , HITS WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. COLUMBUS, July 13.Before the State Convention today, Temporary Chairman H. L.. Peake of Sandusky assailed woman suffrage, which, has come to be an established tenet of the party. He declared 4 that women drink more, and men less, than a de cade ago, and that the weakest laws regulating the liquor traffic, are in the j the woman suffrage, states of Colo rado, Idaho, Utah and- Wyoming.